Watee-wheel



UNITED sTATEs PATENT orricnj J. M. ABELS, OF GATO, NEW YORK.

WATER-WHEEL.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 5,350, dated October 30, 1847.

T 0 all whom may concern Be it kno-wn that I, J. M. ABELs, of Cato, inthe county of Cayuga and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Water-Wheels and the Mode of Supplying Them wit-h Water,and that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of theprinciple or character which distinguishes them from all otherthingsbefore known of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a vertical sectionthrough the'wheel and watert-runk; and F ig. 2, a plan of the wheel. y

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

It is a well known fact that in using water as a mot-ive power,especially under great heads, an advantage is gained by continuing itscurrent in a steady iow; but heretofore the difficulty of effecting thiswithout loss of water, or an apparatus too complicated and liable to getout of order, has been insurmountable. I get the full force due to thehead of water at all times and by having the same amount always passingthrough the wheel at the same time the current is not checked during anyportion of the revolution of the wheel.

The construction is as follows: The wheel is a cylindrical drum of anyrequired diame- I ter, shown at (a) in the drawing; from the peripheryof this drum four flanches (b) project, one on each end and two betweenthem, thus dividing the face of the cylinder into three parts, as isclearly shown in Fig. 2. The spaces between the flanches are occupied bythe buckets which are wedge shaped on their backs (c) rising graduallyfrom the soling (al) in an eccentric curve By my apparatusy out to theouter circumference of the flanches, thence the face of the bucketcurves downward as at (alto the soling yin a nearly radial line. It willbe observed that the buckets in the three divisions are not oppositeeach other, one only passing the breast of the chute at a time; it isobvious (h) of the chute are hinged as many valves .as there aredivisions on the wheel, each vvalvefitting the cross sectionof thedivision [in which it is placed; when the'wheel revolves as the bucketscome aroundv they raise these valves to pass under them and then theyfall again onto the soling, thus preventing the escape of the waterbackward. .Y

It will be observed that owing to the peculiar position and constructionof the buckets there is always the same quantity ofwaterescaping-consequently the current l through the chute is continuo-usthrough the wheel while it is in motion without any vibration or check.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The employment of a wheel constructed substantially as herein described,so as to have the same quantity of water owing thro-ugh it at all timesduring its revolution in combination with the valves on the breast ofthe chute, to prevent the escape of the water backward as herein setforth.

J. M. ABELS. Witnesses:

, A. P. BRowNE,

A. W. VON ScHMmT.

